The world is big, there are no wonders. On the way to the car, you will often encounter many anecdotes, or many little-known niche attractions, which is also the charm of self-driving, so that your curiosity has been greatly satisfied.
Recently, I drove to Luchuan County, Yulin City, Guangxi Province, and encountered a house with an area of 400 acres, which is known as "the first mansion in Guangxi" and "the first village in Guinan", and is also one of the four major private estates in China. It is said that the owner of the house is high and powerful, rich and married 8 wives, and this manor was built for these 8 wives.
For 8 wives to build a 400 acres of luxury manor, the owner of the house must also be rich or expensive, with many questions, I walked into this century-old manor called Sheru Villa.
This Shalu Mountain Villa was built in 1921, it took 7 years to build, it can be seen that its scale is indeed not small, the construction process is also very careful, it is very fortunate that this year is exactly its 100th birthday, it is really early, it is not as good as a coincidence.
When you come to Shalu Mountain Villa, there is a huge poster and introduction of the owner at the door, so let's start with the owner of the manor. Although this manor is called Shalu Villa, the owner is not surnamed Xie, nor is it surnamed Lu, but the owner's ancestors are called Shalu, in order to commemorate it, the manor is named Shalu Villa.
The owner of the manor was named Lü Yaonong, who was a vassal of the Qing Guangxu Dynasty, and later successively served as a county clerk, a zhizhou, and a supervisor, and after the Republic of China, he served as the director of the Nanning local police department and the first commander of the infantry in the middle district of the Guangxi Army, with the rank of major general of the army. The man married a total of 8 wives and built the manor for them in 1921. So where did his money to build the estate come from? How could he have such financial resources?
It is said that Lü Yaonong was in charge of the Baise area at that time, and this was the largest tobacco passage in Guangxi, so you can imagine where his money came from. Another incident is said that some troops used the road to go to Yunnan to fight, and bribed the Lü taro farmers with 200,000 oceans at a time, so he used the money to start building a mountain villa.
Xie Lu Villa used to be called Shuren Academy, some people say that there were ten thousand books here, and he built the manor to carry forward the Confucian spirit, the way of Confucius and Mencius, and to teach and educate people. During the War of Resistance Against Japan, it was indeed used as an academy. However, some people also raised objections, Lü Taro farmer built the mountain villa for his 8 wives, and now things are not human, these can only be used as anecdotes, for people to talk about after tea and dinner.
Lü Yaonong was born with Gongsheng, also a literati, so when he built the villa, he personally did it, and the construction of the entire villa borrowed from the manor scene in "Dream of the Red Chamber", and he also imitated the style of the Suzhou garden, built according to the mountain, pavilions, cloisters, ponds, rockeries and so on.
It is commendable that this is still a manor house with Chinese and Western styles, many of the columns are in the style of Roman columns, which shows that the west wind is gradually moving eastward at that time, and the Lü Yaonong also borrowed the style of many Western-style buildings, so we see a private manor house with Chinese and Western styles today.
Wandering around the manor, you will find that the houses and doorways here are actually not large, which is actually related to the construction of The farmer himself, who tailored the manor according to his own characteristics.
Lü Taro Farmer is nicknamed Taro Ma, he is only 1.57 meters tall, weighs more than 80 pounds, belongs to the five short figures. Locals say that the 8 wives that Lü Taro Farmer married are also small and exquisite, and even his groom is a small dwarf. Therefore, although the villa he built is winding and quiet, the pavilion of the water pavilion lacks atmosphere and magnificence.
This manor was changed to Shelu Mountain Villa after liberation, and Lü Yaonong was brought to justice after liberation because he had suppressed the anti-Japanese troops during the War of Resistance Against Japan. Now a hundred years later, regardless of the original intention of building this manor at that time? None of this matters over time, and now it has become a place for people to travel leisurely and a living witness to history.
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